I’m sure a few curious, brave souls out there have dissected their prized electronic possessions in order to better understand how they work. What we’re often greeted with is a mashup of cold silicon, plastics, and various metals. Depending on who you are, it’s pretty exciting stuff. But what if the real world were more like the art world? What if gadgets were powered not by scientific gadgetry, but by left over pieces of the world itself? Such are the things that occur in the world of art cutaways. Hop inside for the gallery…
Land Rover’s aren’t cheap. This is no secret. But when money is no object and you bathe in fine caviar and smoke the finest cigars, a tricked out Range Rover is the only answer to mobile luxury. The Design Q designed Range Rover is marketed as a private jet on wheels. Lavish goodies such as extra seat room, personal mini spa, humidor, and plenty of other over-the-top features ensure your bank account will bleed deep, dark red before all is said and done.
Anyone up for a cocoanut facial and Brazilian wax while doing 90 on the highway through downtown Iraq? Yeah, I’ll pass…
Have you hugged a tree today? If not, don’t fret. Simply pick up a pair of the Orange Power Wellies boots — a pair of boots that uses heat from every foot step to recharge your phone.
I often forget to bring my charging cable with me, resulting in a power depleted phone by midday. Though I doubt I’d ever forget my feet (unless someone else was using them of course). Precisely the phone accessory I could use. However, the reported 12-hour stomp session that only nets you an hour of charge time is kind of disappointing. But it’s a prototype so I’ll let it slide.
Batteries really haven’t changed much over the years, only going through a few big changes every few decades. Even still, they’re wholly inefficient and toxic to the planet. But a water powered calculator with some unique new age batteries could go a long way to making this planet happier…
“Powered by water?” — you say. Yes. It’s actually not that complicated. The batteries that power this calculator are simple capsules filled with water and interact with two electrodes, causing a chemical reaction which in turn produces the electrical juice we all crave so desperately.
The best part — when the batteries are dead (all the water evaporates eventually), simply refill with water and viola!
Is the boozin’ getting a tad bit too boring for you? Are you and your friends looking for a new exciting (i.e. geeky) way to mix your party drinks? Well the fellas over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories created the “Drink Making Unit” to spice up your drink mixing evenings ( or mornings if you are like me ) Wouldn’t it be amazing if you were at a bar and the bartender had a 8×8 RGB LED Matrix instead of a face? This beautiful little robot has 3 different fluid paths, which means only 3 liquors into one drink. The thing even has an ice bucket to keep the drinks chilled as they pass through the system. Something you won’t believe is that it uses a breast pump to lift the liquid through the device; kinda funny, booze usually leads to the usage of a breast pump, but now you get to continue the circle of life!
If anyone is willing to build one of these, I will definitely accept it as a gift and will spend many nights ‘beta testing’ to see how it functions, and I promise to report any bugs I may find. Please, build this for me…
My feelings on card counting are rather positive. Positive because going into a casino, the odds are so monumentally against you, it almost makes more sense to simply open your wallet and tip it upside down leaving all of your cash/plastic on the floor because that’s essentially what happens to most. If someone can figure out a legal way to tip the odds in favor of the little guy looking for a buck, then why not?
First, if you didn’t know, card counting is the simple act of a person keeping track of the cards in the dealers hands and if they are for/against the players odds. When the player has higher odds, he bets higher. When he has lower odds he keeps his money close. Apparently this is either working to well or casino’s are simply getting greedy as UK researchers have developed an algorithm that can actually track the card counter. If the camera suspects a card counter, the system flags him and alerts security whom then come and give you a not so pleasant visit. Even more impressive, if the suspected card counter tries to throw off the system by betting high on unfavorable hands, it will call his bluff. I chuckle a bit as I can just imagine how humorous it would be to have a majority of casino goes labeled card counters simply because they got lucky or the software isn’t quite up to snuff.
Card carting while not illegal does come with some pretty significant punishment depending on what casino you’re at and the mood of the individual coming to end your streak. Punishments can range from a simple relocation to a new table (thereby starting fresh and giving the casino the upper hand once again), all the way to a near beating, kicked out of the casino, and banned to return for life. Extreme? Yes. Casino’s don’t like card counters. They lose money on them. As with any capitalist based nation/business needs money to survive, I can understand their frustration. But taking such extreme measures giving off such an “asshole” image seems rather futile. It will only cause more to pick up the art. Or at least I think. Agree?
We as tech lovers may get all excited and drool happy over the latest Wii controller or laptop and get sucked into our own little worlds, but laptops, MP3 players, and cellphones aren’t the only gadgets that are manufactured. I would raise the thought that disabled people should or can benefit from technology even more than those that are not disabled. While we are tapping away on our third cellphone, a disabled person may be searching for information on the latest electroic wheelchair, glucose meter, or crazy iPhone app that measures blood sugar, things that can be truly life threatening. But these things never get reported in the mainstream news. It kind of makes technology geared towareds and helping the disabled an “underground” in a sense. No one on the outside really knows about it…or really where to find information about it. This causes an estimated 54 million americans with either a physical or mental disability to get stuck in the technological dark. That is where Abledbody comes in.
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) Wouldn’t it be amazing if you were at a bar and the bartender had a 8×8 RGB LED Matrix instead of a face? This beautiful little robot has 3 different fluid paths, which means only 3 liquors into one drink. The thing even has an ice bucket to keep the drinks chilled as they pass through the system. Something you won’t believe is that it uses a breast pump to lift the liquid through the device; kinda funny, booze usually leads to the usage of a breast pump, but now you get to continue the circle of life!
My feelings on card counting are rather positive. Positive because going into a casino, the odds are so monumentally against you, it almost makes more sense to simply open your wallet and tip it upside down leaving all of your cash/plastic on the floor because that’s essentially what happens to most. If someone can figure out a legal way to tip the odds in favor of the little guy looking for a buck, then why not?
